American Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century: Anglophilia, Russophobia and the Frontier Thesis

Abstrakt

This presentation focused on nineteenth centruy American national identiy and the key contributors to its identity-the frontier, Anglophilia, and Russophobia, explored how the transformation of the United States as a global power influenced its involvement in the Far East and affects its foreign relations and how the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt encouraged and solidified this transformation.

Klíčová slova

• Anglophilia
• Russophobia
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• United States nineteenth century
• Theodore Roosevelt
• open-door policy
• Fronteir Thesis
• Manifest Destiny
• Monroe Doctrine
• American national identity